Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue

With an eye on new technology and a concern for safety and durability in engineering design, this book covers the entire area of mechanical behavior of materials from a practical engineering viewpoint, providing a single-source introductory analysis with specific coverage on materials testing, yield criteria, stress-based fatigue, fracture mechanics, crack growth, strain-based fatigue, and creep. It is ideal for students who have completed elementary mechanics of materials and who need to study practical engineering methods for analyzing parts of machines, vehicles, and structures to determine if trial designs or existing parts are adequate enough to ensure the components' strength and durability.* NEW - Significantly revises and expands coverage on fracture mechanics, stress-based fatigue, and creep. * NEW - Adds two new appendices; one that reviews useful topics from elementary mechanics of materials, and one that considers statistical variation in materials properties. * NEW - Materials Property Locator aids in quickly finding this information in tables throughout the book. * NEW - Contains approximately 423 end-of-chapter Problems and Questions (37% new or substantially revised). * NEW - Updates all end-of-chapter references. FEATURES * Emphasizes the practical engineering methods of testing structural materials to obtain their properties and then predict their strength and life when they are made into parts of machines, vehicles, and structures. * Stresses analytic and predictive methods useful to engineering designers in avoiding structural failure. * Provides thorough coverage on the increasingly important subject of fracture mechanics and crack growth. * Summarizes standard test methods for determining mechanical properties of materials, and examines the principles behind the test methods. * Addresses the topic of fatigue of materials by way of three major approaches - stress-based approach, crack growth approach, and strain-based approach - providing students with complete and up-to-date coverage on this critical mechanical design subject. * Presents illustrations, examples and problems which virtually always employ actual laboratory data on real engineering materials, helping students gain realistic impressions as to the actual values and behavior for the material involved. * Offers a concise summary of equations for calculating stresses and deflections for simple engineering components such as beams, shafts, and pressure vessels (Appendix A).

Table of Contents:
(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Summary, New Terms and Symbols, References, and a Problems and Questions section.)  1. Introduction.  2. Structure and Deformation in Materials.  3. A Survey of Engineering Materials.  4. Mechanical Testing: Tension Test and Other Basic Tests.  5. Stress-Strain Relationships and Behavior.  6. Review of Complex and Principal States of Stress and Strain.  7. Yielding and Fracture under Combined Stresses.  8. Fracture of Cracked Members.  9. Fatigue of Materials: Introduction and Stress-Based Approach. 10. Stress-Based Approach to Fatigue: Notched Members. 11. Fatigue Crack Growth. 12. Plastic Deformation Behavior and Models for Materials. 13. Stress-Strain Analysis of Plastically Deforming Members. 14. Strain-Based Approach to Fatigue. 15. Time-Dependent Behavior: Creep and Damping. Appendix A: Review of Selected Topics from Mechanics of Materials. Appendix B: Statistical Variation in Materials Properties. Bibliography. Index.